r/interesting • u/GhostOfNihilist • 19d ago
SOCIETY A member of a gang nicknamed "Hellboy" was arrested in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, along with his revolver, which fires 12-gauge cartridges.
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u/Significant-Kick-479 19d ago
Thats an incredible homemade build. Just wow
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u/whatup-markassbuster 19d ago
Shit looks like it would explode if it discharged
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u/trainedstork 19d ago
Look at the wall thickness of those pipe cross sections, this thing is overbuilt if anything
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u/Brasolis 19d ago
If you run out of shells it just becomes a bludgeon.
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u/Joshua_Longsack 19d ago
Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable.
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u/Traditional_Yard2741 19d ago
And the fact that your gun has "replica" stamped down the side...
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u/rickyizm 19d ago
How much longer on those sausages?
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u/New_Distribution5972 19d ago
5 minutes Turkish
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u/Massive_Staff1068 19d ago
It was 5 minutes, five minutes ago.
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u/JuanDeChuj 19d ago
And if I ever seen you here again you MOTHA- FUKK-ERS ! well... you see that other guy...
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u/xxxXMythicXxxx 18d ago
And if you run out of bullets you can always hit him with it, eh? Eh? So you take gun?
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u/raaneholmg 19d ago
The pressure developed pushing the follower/slug down a smooth pipe is very low compared to a rifle.
However! What happens if the cylinder is slightly misaligned and the projectile gets stuck?
Best case, the brass ruptures and hot gas and brass flies everywhere, including past the hammer and into your face. Worst case is worse.
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u/sithelephant 19d ago
Well, first off, the cylinder must remain unharmed, so jot that down.
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u/xgabipandax 19d ago
However! What happens if the cylinder is slightly misaligned and the projectile gets stuck?
KABOOM?
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u/RussMaGuss 19d ago
Let's see Paul Allen's shotgun revolver
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u/WoolshirtedWolf 19d ago
Lawsuit from the ACME vs Coyote has a wide range of harmed consumers. This dude has a lifetime Honeybun commissary connection coming his way.
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u/Gryphontech 19d ago
Thickness dosnt always mean strength... material properties of metals vary a LOT. This is even worst if you heat the metal (during welding) or if the metal is corroded. Shooting this this could me safe maybe... or it could explode in your face, either way I doubt anyone has done the math to check
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u/Slow_Variation_6969 19d ago edited 19d ago
Shot guns use thinner barrels than standard center-fire firearms due to much lower pressures (5K-8k PSI) compared to say a 9mm cartridge (35k PSI)
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u/Gryphontech 19d ago
Right, what I'm saying is if you use shit steel and do a bad job with the welds even something that looks thick can be a lot weaker then you expect it to be.
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u/prong_daddy 19d ago
I'm thinking that metallurgy isn't the safety problem. This piece of crap looks like it was braized together. Brass is orders of magnitude weaker than a steel weld.
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u/Gryphontech 19d ago
Cool so we both agree that the issue is the physical properties of the metals used, awesome :)
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u/BeginningSection7690 19d ago
Do you think somebody who makes a 12g revolver and goes by "hellboy" gives a shit about your idea of safety?
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u/I-baLL 19d ago
To be fair, seems like he got the nickname because of the gun since it resembles the gun Hellboy uses in the comics
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u/BeginningSection7690 19d ago
In my head he named himself hellboy and then made the gun to look like his
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u/Wooden_Permit3234 19d ago
“Now they’ll all call me Hellboy! El Chico del Infierno!”
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u/HundredHander 19d ago
Is he even aware of 'safety'?
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u/SayerofNothing 19d ago
He blew that guy away years ago
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u/Boring-Researcher167 19d ago
Both Hellboy and Away would prefer you stop mentioning that publicly. It's really messing with the intragang power dynamic.
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u/Significant-Kick-479 19d ago
No it doesn’t. So you’re telling me that that guy went through all that trouble and never fired it to test it out?
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u/MemoryMedical3967 19d ago
Nah.... 12 gauge has surprisingly low chamber pressure.
If that would fire rifle rounds it would be sketchy.
I'd shoot half size mini shells from that thing all day
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u/IndyBananaJones4eva 19d ago
Load it with shorty slugs and you essentially have a musket ball firing revolver.
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u/MemoryMedical3967 19d ago edited 19d ago
Theres even blackpowder shotgun ammo. Maybe the dude building it wanted to be a pirate and choose the next best job instead
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u/Succulent_Chinese 19d ago
It does, out the open ends.
So ended the Japanese prime minister to a job like this.
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u/LumpyBuy8447 19d ago
Years ago I was shooting with one of my buddies and he had an ar style 22 that periodically would just chamber incorrectly and explode but it was such a small caliper that you honestly could hardly hear a difference from it firing normally. Trusting this contraption is absolutely wild.
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u/MemoryMedical3967 19d ago
A semi auto is definitely different then a revolver.
Cylinder alignment isn't as important when you shoot buckshot.
Plus there's no feeding mechanism that can fail like the ar
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u/Less-Damage-1202 19d ago
I wanna know if the cylinder actually spins like it should 🤔
Imagine this thing chain firing!😬
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u/Significant-Kick-479 19d ago
It looks like the cylinder manually spins and is set on the rod that you see in the front. The cylinder is held in position by the screw on the bottom that goes into little divots on each chamber
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u/AnAncientBog 19d ago
If you look close you can see a little dimple in the ends of the cylinders and a little screw in front of the trigger guard. Its pretty clear that you have to looses the screw, hand rotate the cylinder and then lock it in place with the screw.
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u/This_Elk_1460 19d ago
He ain't got shit on that guy in Japan that killed the PM with a doohickey
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u/Ok_Sea8523 19d ago
Cant put him in prison with those skills. He'll just escape using his prison built RPG and fly off in his prison built helicopter
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u/mackenzie_2113 19d ago
That's some Fallout 4 customizable weapon bullshit, right there.
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u/Deadeyes__ColdSkin 19d ago
That's exactly what I thought. If you found it the thing would be named "The Eraser" or something like that. LoL
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u/Xyrothor 19d ago
I mean, I know nothing of guns, but wouldn't higher mass help with the recoil?
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u/Massive-Exercise4474 19d ago
The issue is the recoil would just be to his hands unless he's incredibly strong.
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u/horned-creature 19d ago
12 gauge has less recoil than many expect, especially with birdshots, this guy probably was able and used it.
also we see a underbarrel handle in one of the pics, which would make this more like a sewn off rifle, as he probably didn't wield it like a pistol.
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u/GForce1975 19d ago
I was thinking he'd knock himself out but that handle in the front looks sturdy with a good grip on it
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u/Additional-Raise-833 19d ago
I really appreciate the use of the desk’s monitor cable hole here. Some underpaid rookie came up with that and it really is the unsung hero of this photo.
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u/ontheeast88 19d ago
That makes more sense. I thought they broke out the old milking table for a photo op.
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u/Fruitmidget 19d ago
As a farmer, I wondered what kind of weird milking contraption for a goat or sheep that would be. Then I remembered that there other kinds of milking, that don’t necessarily involve dairy animals.
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u/LumpyBuy8447 19d ago
It’s honestly kind of interesting. I used to work in a fab shop and those guys would eat through grinders. There were just random ass handles for them everywhere. I have no doubt whoever had the capability to weld that on and had the die to thread it, also had a plethora of unused grinder handles at their disposal.
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u/gypsybullldog 19d ago
Oh definitely lol I’m an industrial painter at a paint/sand blast shop and those handles are everywhere
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u/OilheadRider 19d ago
Lol, and brand new unused handles, too. They get in the way and, I have way better control if I hold the head of the grinder.
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u/Aggressive_Day2839 19d ago
I actually made a mickey mouse sculpture out of old grinder guards and the tools for removing the arbor. Noone wants to throw something useful away so a certain box on a shelf stored every guard and tool never used.
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u/trainedstork 19d ago
I wonder how the action works.
It looks like to cycle the chambers he must have wound it using the crank on the front by the muzzle that connects through to the drum. I hope it has indexing, otherwise having to line it up manually would be terrible. Other than that it looks strong enough to hold together, those are some thick steel pipes
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u/Meme-Botto9001 19d ago
I think it’s just to get out and reload the drum.
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u/trainedstork 19d ago edited 19d ago
The reason I thought it might be used to cycle the gun is a. the cylinder/drum really doesn't look like it swings out and b. I see the little handle in two positions (both 9 and 3 oclock) in the image series so it rotates.
On a regular revolver, that's where the ejector rod could be, but it can't be used to get the cylinder out here as it's entirely internal to the underlug which is fixed to the barrel.
That said, cycling the action might be done with a press of that handle beneath the cylinder/barrel? It might connect to a pawl that cycles the gun. Either way i don't see this thing having an internal action, whether that be single or double action.
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u/Any-Square-7771 19d ago
It looks to me like it has indexing, if you look at the cylinder closely you can see "little" dents to the rear on each chamber, and to my eye they seem to be intentional bc they're pretty uniform
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u/steventempered 19d ago
I think they correspond with the lock pin screw underneath the drum.
Know nothing about firearms, but I am a fabricator and that looks sketchy as fuck to me.
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u/trainedstork 19d ago
Yeah, another commenter mentioned those, and the little bolt/nut on the trigger guard. I'm inclined to side with his explanation that the cylinder can be spun by hand to cycle the gun, but that bolt is tightened into the dimple to index the cylinder. Still have no idea about that little handle in front, unless it's somehow used for disassembly.
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u/Ur_fav_Cryptek 19d ago
The handle in the front is so you don’t break your wrist while firing the thing, it’s a forward grip
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u/2bit_solutionz 19d ago
It looks like the cylinders has dimples towards the hammer, and in front of the trigger guard it looks like a wingnut that could be a screw/spring tensioner. So maybe the cylinder it rotated by hand but doesn't spin freely?
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 19d ago
The whole thing is just a study in grace. A show piece, too pretty to shoot.
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u/mrbluetrain 19d ago
Hey Fallout dev team, I have an idea for you!
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u/I_travel_ze_world 19d ago
They did add The Ghoul's shotgun like pistol to Fallout 76
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u/sLeeeeTo 19d ago
this gun is in cyberpunk 2077
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u/Kitselena 19d ago
This is the type of unique weapon you would find on an unnamed raider boss in a random office building
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u/BingWingleton 19d ago
They ain't lying when they say Brazil is just Fallout 4
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u/MACHOmanJITSU 19d ago
Read its police are the only police in the world who issue m60 style heavy machine guns.
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u/superpolytarget 19d ago edited 19d ago
No shit.
Once i went to my mother's hometown in the country of a northern state.
They had 12 police officers for a city of 10.000 people, and they all sported heavy irons whenever they where seen around XD.
It could have been the most mundane ocurence, whenever they were called, they brought at least a shotgun with them.
And if i recal, i have never seen them firing even once, so it was just for aura farming.
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u/Due_Friendship6996 19d ago edited 19d ago
eu moro no brasil e aqui na cidade onde vivo a policia militar (tipo a policia normal que patrulha as ruas) anda com um HK416 e eu já vi eles usar contra um bandido que apontou um revolver para eles n foi bonito de se ver e aqui ainda tem uma lei que n deixa voce ter uma calibre12 de cartucho com vários chumbinhos mas pode uma altomática com um chumbo grandão
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u/Krieger_kleanse 19d ago
Dudes in Brazil are using warhammer bolters because 00 buck is just too much.
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u/CandidLeg3910 18d ago
This is leads to far fewer emergency surgeries needed for gunshot wounds but they need a bigger morgue, along with plastic bags for the brain matter.
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u/ThinkRise845 18d ago
M60 is a machine gun that is indeed heavy, but it's not a heavy machine gun (HMG). HMG is 50cal or above. The M60 is just an LMG (7.62 NATO or .308).
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u/justwalk1234 19d ago
I wonder how safe that gun is to use..
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u/MostlyAlways47 19d ago
They called him hellboy because everyone was absolutely sure that thing was gonna explode at some point and send him straight there.
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u/xXAssmaster420Xx 19d ago
Didn't Hellboy have a giant revolver? I'm pretty sure that's why they call this guy hellboy
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u/m4n715 19d ago
It's a movie-only thing, but "The Samaritan" is a 4-shot, top-break revolver that fires 22mm cartridges, slightly larger than a 12ga.
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u/xXAssmaster420Xx 19d ago
Really? I could have sworn he has the gun in the comics too
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u/m4n715 19d ago
He has a variety of firearms in the comic, most notably a single-shot, top-break pistol with some history but it's not named or anything. But he's also carried a standard issue duty revolver and sometimes he's pictured with a semi-auto handgun resembling an M1911.
Which I think is curious given how much comics love to give characters bespoke, signature weapons and how unique Hellboy is as a character. Like he's a guy who should have a distinctive hand cannon and it's a thing the movies did really well.
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u/zackinthesoda 19d ago
Suprisingly safer if its 12 gauge since its lower pressures
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u/BillCarson12799 19d ago
What kind of fucking garage welded bullshit could possibly be rated for shooting .50 caliber cartridges on full auto? That’s a catastrophic malfunction waiting to happen.
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u/tymyol 19d ago
It's Brazil, Man. We have a Very famous video of a small time drug dealer getting himself blown up - he had a belt with many "garage made" gunpowder filled grenades and was balancing himself on a barrel with gun in hand. He slipped, the impact on the floor made all the grenades explode.
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u/KoBoWC 19d ago
A pump action sawn off would be more useable, this thing has broken wrist all over it.
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u/EnergyTurtle23 19d ago
It has a forward grip, and looks like it’s gotten plenty of use.
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u/Occidentally20 19d ago
I like how the forward grip is just off a bikes handlebars.
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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 19d ago edited 19d ago
ha! for the last pic they just stuck it in the hole in the desk for cables.
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u/GodBlessAmerica776 19d ago
Nah, that thing is heavy enough to offset a lot of the recoil. A 12 gauge isn't enough to break a wrist regardless unless you're like 90
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u/HexaCube7 19d ago
As you can see in the 1st picture, the guy clearly has no hands, so i don't see the issue???
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u/ICEtoAshes 19d ago
That’s what I was thinking. This is more for conversation or intimidation.
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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 19d ago
I am quite sure it would also make a very messy hole as a conversation ender.
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u/john-stewart-nutz 19d ago
Not to mention the burnt powder that escapes between the gap of the cylinder and the barrel. That'll cook your arm hair off
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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 19d ago
surely not, good sir. not with this level of precision home engineering!
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u/Bazzatron 19d ago
Brazil, I am begging you, please fire this on video.
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u/Shadowmirax 19d ago
New dystopian fiction idea, criminals like these are made to fire their own homemade doohikies downrange until they run out of ammo, if they manage to do so without it blowing up in their hands they are free to go
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u/-FakeAccount- 19d ago
How is this not in every game
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u/Notagamedeveloper112 19d ago
I think this is in BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT
It’s the starting weapon.
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u/missingmedievalist 19d ago edited 19d ago
Brazil is interesting. Between this and the dude who injected shit into his arms to look like the Hulk, I honestly don’t know who’s more mad. Well, maybe the dude who injected himself with crap.
Edit: As in synthol. He was injecting himself with synthol and God knows what else. Here’s a story on him: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/brazilian-bodybuilder-hulk-dies-taking-injections-DWzHM5_2/
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u/justforkinks0131 19d ago
lots of people inject synthol all over the world, it's not a brazil thing only
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u/indolering 19d ago
What the fuck is that like to shoot? I've never fire a gun, but I thought shotguns were extra but how you do that as a handgun?
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u/Agent_of_evil_13 19d ago
Looking at that thing, it wouldn't surprise me if it's actually heavier than my full size 12 gauge. That is some thick steel, so the recoil is probably manageable.
Firing that would probably get a lot of hot gas in your face though. I doubt there is a good seal between the cylinder and the barrel, so a lot of gas would shoot out the sides.
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u/souptable 19d ago
First thing I thought when looking at it, was why not just bring an actual shotgun. More practical and lighter, can prob get a 6 shell pump into the same size.
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u/Nostalgioneer 19d ago
Sure but most of the weight is in front of your hands. It's going to try to pivot and smack you in the face. Surprisingly smart to put a grip on it.
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u/Nostalgioneer 19d ago
You have to hold on to that front grip like your life depends on it. That thing is trying to bonk you on the forehead every time you shoot it.
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u/123supreme123 19d ago
I've shot some pretty gnarly revolvers and handguns before. 45 mag, 454 casul, desert eagle. If you're shooting slugs or 00buck out of that thing, I imagine the recoil to be pretty gnarly....
Put it this way, if 2 of his henchmen are standing on either side of the gun when it's fired, they'd probably be deaf and concussed at best.
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u/mrtobesmcgobes 19d ago
The cylinders aren’t sealed like a shotgun chamber too, so I’d imagine this is igniting gasses way too close to your hand. This would be a gun to shoot from a vice with a string on the trigger from a safe distance
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u/Spicy_McHagg1s 19d ago
I used to own a Super Redhawk in 480. It shot a 400gr slug around 1200fps. 400gr is about an ounce, so equivalent ballistics to a standard loaded 12ga shell without a shock absorbing wad. It wasn't pleasant but it wasn't close to breaking my wrist. I figure a 460 or 500 S&W would be even more violent without the brake.
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u/Locksmithbloke 19d ago
Don't forget, also, that the shells aren't going to be making nearly full pressure/power here. It's effectively a sawn-off, times 6.
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u/checkmyconditionisin 19d ago
it will have some kick but that front handle will pretty much absorb most of it, assuming youre gripping it hard enough before shooting.
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u/DeadbySundown 19d ago
Honestly gangster as fuck. I'm surprised these don't really exist.
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u/zilliondollar3d 19d ago
Non gun ppl thinking this is a dangerous thing….na he’s going to blow a finger off…can’t confirm based on the photo not showing finger count
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